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crime the following communication was sent to k-a-k-e-tv and was titled the BTK story
believed to be the autobiography of the killer the police were searching for complete with an outline giving the
titles to 13 chapters of the BTK story they were one a serial killer is born two
Dawn three fetish four fantasy world five the search begins six btk's haunts seven
PJs eight Mo ID ruse nine hits 10. Treasured Memories 11. the final curtain call
dusk 13 will there be more [Music] [Music] in the spring of 1989 Dennis Rader got a
new job as a census field operations supervisor in Wichita Kansas now he liked this job for many reasons mainly
because the job required him to be out driving around in a truck one of his favorite things was to eat his lunch in
his truck and Scout for possible new victims he also had among other strange Hobbies
a hobby where he would scour magazines and newspapers for ads featuring women that caught his eye he would cut out the
images of the women he liked and he would glue them to three by five index cards
each day he would Place one in his pocket and the card would ride along in the truck with him while he was out
doing his job each day he would write in his journals at home and talk like the women were real so he
would write things like drove around today drove around town today with a sexy redhead note to self if I ever
start doing this jump off a bridge immediately in 1991 he was hired by the compliance Department in Park City as a
compliance officer this job required him to work with code violators issuing tickets and catching dogs
there were varying stories regarding Raider at this job some would later say that Raider used the position to bully
people some say he was just doing his job and others even reported that Raider was nice and helpful in all likelihood
he probably did not treat everyone the same way and he definitely harassed some women during the time when he was
working in this position and there's one story in particular of a woman that had moved into town into Park
City and she stated that when she moved to Park City she was single and Raider must have taken a liking tour
because he was very helpful like seemed to be checking on her from time to time very pleasant very nice to her and he
would see her often I think that's called stalking well when she when she got a boyfriend
he changed his song and dance he really started harassing the woman and started harassing the boyfriend he would issue
them tickets for very minor infractions almost seeming like he was making things
up from time to time and she said that he often would park his truck and sit and eat his lunch where he could see the
house where he could keep a visual monitoring of the house and maybe of her as well again that's called stalking
regardless he seemed to like this job and for many reasons but mostly because it gave him some type of authority
giving him a badge and some power Dolores D Davis age 62 was born in 1928 in Stella Nebraska she was raised on a
farm now she was an excellent cook who made everything from scratch in 1961 after 12 years of marriage a son and a
daughter D and her husband divorce now she was a fun protective and devoted mother and grandmother adored by her
family her son and you know his her son always spoke to his mother on the phone on the weekends sometimes for hours when
her children and grandchildren gathered for Christmas at her home in 1990 they spent much time together but one memory
that was created during that trip was they all sat together and watched the movie All Dogs Go to Heaven uh this if
anybody's seen this movie you'll know it's an emotional movie it did bring the family to tears now Dee had just retired
from her job of over 25 years as a secretary for a fuel company she was passionate about animal rights issues
and she enjoyed being a Mary Kay cosmetics sales consultant Dennis Raider had spent a couple of months driving by
her home and seeing her when he decided that she would be a good Target well this is because BTK found her attractive
and she lived alone in January of 1991 Dennis Raider was going to put together a plan to do a hit on her now on the
night of the 19th Raider went to dolores's Home Dolores was home inside reading Dennis waited outside for her to
turn off the lights before he would break in while he's out there Raider is waiting
outside he's wondering he he cannot figure out how he's going to break into the house he had already
checked the doors and they were locked and they were far too sturdy for him to pry them open after she turned out the
lights Raider cut the phone line to the house he then found a cinder block in someone's backyard he carried it over
near dolores's home he lifted it up until it was shoulder high he centered himself on a large sliding glass door in
the back of the house Raider launched the heavy block into the air and through the window instantly shattering the
glass Dolores ran out of her bedroom screaming she saw Raiders standing inside her home
he told her it was cold outside and that he needed some warmth some food and some
money he ordered her to return to the bedroom he followed behind once inside the bedroom Dennis Raider
pulled a pair of handcuffs out of his pocket and put them on her wrist to try to calm the woman down he kept
telling her he just needed her car keys and then he would be gone in no time once she calmed down Raider took the
Cuffs off of Dolores and tied her hands together with rope he took a pair of pantyhose from one of the dresser
drawers he wrapped them around her neck strangling her until she was dead blood had started to come out of her ears
mouth and nose it took him about three minutes to strangle her Raider then wrapped her body up in the
blanket that was on the bed and carried her body out to the trunk of her car then he went back into the home and
collected some jewelry and clothing of dolores's he then hopped into her car and drove
off he dumped her body in a culvert by a highway then he drove to another location and hid the trophies he had
collected from her house in a safe spot so that he could retrieve them later then and I find this to be awfully
strange he drove her car back to her house and put it in the garage [Music] he walked like two miles to his own
vehicle I do find this incredibly strange but here one thing I do know about BTK is this at one of his crimes
he actually left the gun that he used during the crime at the crime scene I don't know which crime scene that was
and he said that he had to go back and retrieve that gun my guess is it might be this one right that he's talking or
he's driving around and saw a bunch of cops and thought I should just go back to the house and drop off the car at the
house well in a little behind the scenes thought here for everybody that's kind of why I picked the beer this week to be
dimwit we have this individual Dennis Raider that likes to portray himself of a certain intellect and to be very smart
and cunning and outsmarting the police and outsmarting his victims when in reality he's just kind of a buffoon you
know he's just kind of yeah he's a dimwit very good so I think maybe it might be this crime where he realized
that he had left the gun because he he dumps her body in this Culvert just to kind of conceal her and then he decides
to go hide these trophies that he intends to retrieve later driving her vehicle back to her home
walking two miles to his own vehicle and then once he gets his vehicle he drives
back to her body picks it up and takes it to another location much further away he decides
that he's going to dump her here at this new location right this is under a bridge out in the middle of nowhere
now the next day he's still all charged up and hopped up on these fantasies and thinking about the night before
the next day he returned to the body he placed a plastic mask over the face and put lipstick and makeup on the mask
and then he took several photos of the body two weeks later the body was discovered
the murder was featured in the newspaper the connection to BTK was not made according to Dennis's journals with each
kill he was extremely paranoid after his murders each time expecting the police to show up at his door at any time
but each time that feeling would go away after about a month or so and after the
paranoia left each time then he would be back out trolling for victims again this murder took place in
1991 but we're not going to hear from the BTK because he goes dark until 2004. yeah the whole time I guess living his
life doing normal things more normal things um however it would be what brought this
on I believe is in January of 2004 the Wichita Eagle ran a story on the 30-year anniversary
of the BTK case right two months later in March of 2004 a letter arrived at the newspaper according to the information
on the envelope the letter was from Bill Thomas killman the return address was 1684 South Old Manor the the address was
fake there was right no such place in Wichita now people had always wondered if you
think about the initials of Bill Thomas killman so that's BTK right yeah and then the other thought was was he
playing some kind of game you know BTK would be an old man by now and the address used was 1684 South Old Manor
right anyway inside the envelope they found photocopied snapshots of a woman who appeared to be either unconscious or
dead she's lying on a floor it also contained a photocopy of a driver's license of a 28 year old Vicki
wegerly whose 1986 murder had never been solved or linked to the BTK Strangler on
the letters BTK was written at the bottom of the page there was also some type of code
made up of letters and numbers police sent the code to code Breakers but they they came up with nothing they couldn't
crack it well when you're stupid and you come up with a code normally it's hard for anybody to to crack it right because
it didn't make any sense in 2000 in the year 2000 this was four four years before BTK ended his silence
the wagerly Cold Case became hot the Wichita police detectives this is Kelly Otis and Dana gouge they were
assigned to work on the unsolved 1986 killing of 28 year old Vicki wegerly a wife and a mother found bound and
strangled in her home on West 13th Street now the police had found a man's DNA this was under the victim's
fingernails and in 2003 the lead homicide detective Ken landware remember we talked about him he was one of the
members of the Ghostbuster Squad by this point in his career he's now the lead homicide detective for the Wichita
Kansas Police Department yeah he had the two detectives on the case test the DNA that was found landware had
always suspected that the Vicki wegerly murder could be the work of BTK now as you know when it comes to lab
work current cases take priority over the old one so it was not until after the first communication from BTK in 2004
that they would get the results back well and it could have been as simple as hey we he's made contact again so they
bumped up the priority yeah yeah they may have moved it to the the front of the line but shortly after he broke his
silence they received the results from those tests and the profile was entered into a newly developed National Database
of criminals now there was no match for this however the DNA test showed that the same killer had been in the homes
where BTK strangled four members of the Otoro family in 1974 and Nancy Fox in 1977.
but once police saw the photocopy of the pictures then the driver's license and the
letters BTK the hunt was on so police announced the startling new development and the news media pounced on this story
police received over 1 000 tips over the course of the first weekend of this investigation that they just launched
now to handle the response from the public police set up a command center at a law enforcement training academy they
needed Elbow Room for phone Banks and for computers and they just needed space to work on this thing the Sedgwick
County Sheriff's Office assisted with data entry and research support callers gave police an overwhelming number of
possible suspect names detective landware and crew decided suspects would be eliminated systematically and
scientifically now the eliminators would be as follows one would be race so the DNA a profile showed the killer was a
white male so if you weren't a white male you're eliminated right age the calculation was
based on the idea that the killer probably would have been at youngest 18 to maybe 20 years of age when he killed
his first known victims right the otoros in January of 74. so the killer would be
at this time 48 years or older now incarceration was also very much an eliminating Factor because someone who
was in jail or prison during any one of the murders was eliminated also prisoners in recent years would have DNA
on record and police knew that btk's DNA didn't match anything in the database right the most important of all of the
eliminating factors was of course DNA in a somewhat controversial move investigators took 1600 DNA mouth swabs
for men mainly in and around Wichita but a few came from people living out of the
state almost all of these 1600 people volunteered and complied to submit their DNA well another crazy thing is is now
they're they're realizing with the research that BTK was in dormant yeah and actually lot of people at this time
had probably forgotten about BTK the Wichita was no longer afraid of this person most people would assumed that he
had died or moved on but yeah like you said you know he it wasn't that he wasn't dormant during this two and a
half decades he had just simply kept a lower profile than in his earlier killings and now police had to wonder as
did the community how many killings was he responsible for over the course of that time
on June 9th of 2004 what police would later call Communication number three this was found at the corner of first in
Kansas taped to a stop sign one of the documents in the package graphically described the Otoro family murders also
there was a drawing of a nude female bound gagged and hanging from a rope with the drawing were the words the
sexual Thrill is my bill this guy's such a douche in July workers at the public library discovered a clear plastic bag
at the bottom of a book Return bin written on the bag where the letters BTK inside were five sheets of paper
two of the pages detailed btk's involvement in the death of a troubled 19 year old man named Jake Allen Allen's
death was ruled a suicide now Allen was a star athlete in high school who dreamed of being an optometrist
Allen was picked up and arrested by police he and some buddies were out drinking and driving and they had
alcohol in the car after his arrest he was convinced that he would never get into college and it is believed because
of this that he decided to take his own life by lying down on the train tracks yeah yeah he was crushed almost beyond
recognition now BTK however wrote in this communication that he had been responsible for the death
of as he put it old Jakey after meeting him in a computer chat room and convincing the young man that he was in
fact a private eye hunting for BTK the letter claimed that the young man Jakey had sexual perversions involving
masturbation bondage and homosexuality and claimed Jakey agreed to help the fake private eye in his investigation to
find BTK these of course are all lies however the police at the time did not know this
and this was this was actually you know where I call Dennis Rader a dimwit uh this may have been a smart move on his
part just simply because the investigation at that time was white hot right and right this this is Dennis
Rader throwing a wrench into that well-oiled machine because then the police spent weeks focusing in on Jake
Allen conducting interviews sifting through his computer investigating if he was the latest BTK victim but it was all
for naught it was it was just a farce put on by Raider after he read about the boy's suicide in the newspaper now what
might not be a phony story is that also in this communication BTK stated that he
had some future female and maybe a child victim in mind that he had spotted them
and had already began to troll them and he just had to quote work out the details
[Music] [Music] alright cheers mates we're uh drinking the dimwit let's get back to the dimwit
cheers Captain it was in October the BTK reached out again what we're seeing here
is a frequency he can't control himself at this point right he's he's enjoying this communication back and forth too
much at this point this communication was found in a UPS dropbox by one of their drivers again it
was a plastic bag with the initials BTK on it inside were three note cards and on them were what BTK called his uno dos
Trace Theory stating that the world of the BTK is based around the number three and
triangles I could go into this it I've I I know this stuff but it makes little to no
sense at all like you know like he would draw like a triangle and it would at one
point put BTK police right right detectives you know or I'm sorry BTK victims police you know
and then the other Sun heat warmth like it was just stuff that made no sense at all right
um this communication also it contained what is thought to be pieces of the Killer's autobiography and as usual this
was full of errors and misspellings it was now and we kind of talked about this we don't know if if he was just an idiot
and he was had misspellings or had errors or if he did this on purpose to like throw off the scent yeah so um do
you want me to kind of fast forward a little bit since we're on that subject yeah so yes you're exactly right the FBI
warned the local police department to not fall for what could be what is commonly used when these guys make
Communications is a lot of them will purposely misspell things or they'll have grammatical errors
in this case with BTK that was the thought right that was the thought during the time of the investigation
after he was caught and after he was uh wrote out his own confessions they saw those same the guy couldn't spell and he
couldn't write well you might have some form of Dyslexia problem you know which would probably make him feel
self-conscious which would probably lead him to want to feel powerful yeah you know I laughed there but I only laughed
there because I actually think maybe he's just more impulsive and less in control of himself than he thinks that
he is right um and that and that this bad spelling thing has something that has always been
a part of him right now speaking of communications the next communication was as the others were strange uh this
was a strange one and they seem to be getting more and more strange as they were getting more frequent this time it
was a cereal box that was was found inside I'm sorry inside the cereal box they found jewelry from one of his
victims and a little doll like a like a Barbie doll and the Barbie doll had bindings on it and it was tied by the
neck with a to a little piece of pipe the the box also contained a note card asking a question had the officers
received number seven from the Home Depot parking lot the answer to that question is they had knocked so
so here's here's what he's doing okay okay he's kind of he's kind of numbering his Communications right if you just
like he named himself now he's number in his Communications he's not he's not technically numbering them but but this
would be the seventh communication that they received in 2004. and he's saying wait a second did you
receive number seven from the Home Depot parking lot so seven in the same year yes seven in the same year I just want
to be clear about that right so what what I'm getting at is this would be the seventh communication
that they had received it's the eighth one that he has sent to them he's asking them did you get number seven because he
knows that sometimes they receive these things and they don't tell anybody right
his whole thing that his his whole his whole ritualistic attitude here is he has to have that broadcasted he has
to get the notoriety for these communications he has to see his name in the paper right and because he didn't he
wants to know well did you receive that and you're just keeping it quiet or did you not find it right
well they had not received this and the way that this worked out was they go to this Home Depot and they're they're
looking around they searched the store inside and out they can't find anything from BTK they can't find any form of
communication No it should be pretty obvious once they find what they're looking for because he almost always
puts the initials BTK on the communications so what they do is they get a bunch of the surveillance tape
from the parking lot from the Home Depot and on one piece of footage this was from days before that they spotted where
an SUV had pulled into the almost empty parking lot this would have been when the store was not open parking lot's
almost empty This SUV V pulls in somebody gets out of the vehicle walks across a short way across the parking
lot and has some kind of object in their hand and they toss it into the back of a
pickup truck into the bed of a pickup truck the crazy thing here though Captain is
the detectives we have landware who's been working this case for almost 20 years we have all these other detectives
that have been hunting this madman could you imagine they're seeing what they believe to be bgk's vehicle could you
imagine what's going through their brains they well they're looking at a shadow like a shadow figure of the guy
that they know and believe to be BTK the guy that they've been hunting all these
years they can they're seeing him but not his face well what they end up doing is they have
to get the they have no idea what was thrown into the back of that truck or how they're going to find this thing
right well maybe if they get the license plate number they could track down the vehicle they couldn't because it was too
blurry too blurry plus if they could do that then you would think they could get
btk's license plate number true but think of the risk that he's okay we've covered so many retail cases lately
please upgrade your cameras people please it's ridiculous well what they did Captain was they were able to decide
that they could determine the approximate size and wheelbase of the vehicle that the suspect was driving
this was interesting because they actually really narrowed it down to a very few models a very few vehicles and
models and what they were able to determine was that if in fact this vehicle was not stolen that he was
driving his own vehicle let's say right he would be one of about 200 he would be one of about 2500 local
residents that owned a vehicle matching this description let's go knocking on doors my friend
well that would be an option but they actually came up with the communication before they would have to take that
route so what happened was the manager of the Home Depot put up Flyers inside the store asking all of the employees
did you receive anything strange in your vehicle did you find anything weird and
you don't know what it is let us know well a roommate of a guy that worked there that owned the
um the guy that worked there owned a pickup truck right his roommate had found a cereal box in the back of the
dude's pickup truck Simmons host crunch it was a Special K cereal oh that's so cereal that's a garbage he was he
assumed that it was trash and he had thrown it away he assumed right because that cereal's garbage I like Special K
now you're garbage the trash had not been collected from the home yet so they were able to retrieve this special case
cereal box this was recovered and inside there were there was a two-page document
and on it was a long list of btk's projects or what he called his PJs there there was also a question and this was
asking land where this was asking landware directly if BTK wanted to send a computer disk to
them could they trace it and he asked them to give him the answer in the newspaper in the One ads under the
miscellaneous section and if they can't trace it to put in the message Rex it will be okay also they should run the ad
for several days so that BTK would not miss the ad if he were out of town or didn't pick up the paper that day please
run the ad multiple times for me this was weird because now we have Raider wanting to start communicating by
sending them floppy disk from computers and for the first time BTK is asking the
police a question this is a dumb question rather than just kind of talent you know directing the conversation and
telling them whatever he wants when your teacher tells you when they stand up at
the front of the classroom and they say students there are no dumb questions you
say yes there is when you're a serial killer you do not ask the cops if they can trace something
or not the police they went ahead and ran the ad in the newspaper and their ad read Rex go ahead and send a floppy
well on January of 2005 Dennis Rader became the elected president of council at the Christ Lutheran Church right on
February 16th of that same year a padded envelope arrived at k-a-k-e-tv inside were more index cards and a purple
computer desk the disc was turned over to the police analysts the disc contained one message and the message
said this is a test see note card for further instruction the note cards said that any
communication going forward from the killer would have a number on it that way if one was lost they would know yeah
or if somebody else was writing to them pretending to be the BTK that they wouldn't get mixed up it only took the
analyst a few more minutes to pull the information that they were searching for this revealed that the author of the
test message was someone named Dennis and the owner of the computer was the Christ Lutheran Church
now this is going to sound completely crazy for somebody that you've looked for for 20 years I mean and when you
factor all involved you're talking about this was over a 30-year Manhunt for this
guy right so what did they do they did a quick Google search and this quick Google search told the
officers that Christ Lutheran Church was located in Park City right and that a one Dennis Raider was listed as the
church's president they put surveillance on their subject but they didn't jump on him and arrest
him right away they wanted to make sure that they had good solid evidence on this guy to connect him to BTK before
the arrest land where wanted DNA from Raider to tie him to the DNA that was found at
multiple crime scenes where BTK had killed right but how were they going to get Dennis Rader's DNA without tipping
him off well this is this is wild so they start doing some digging on Dennis Raider his background and his family one
thing that they discovered is that his daughter Carrie had attended the University of Kansas State
while she was there she had been treated or or received some kind of you know checkup or treatment at the health
clinic there yeah they took her DNA yeah so she was no longer she was no longer a
student there she had graduated before but they still had things that they believed that they could pull DNA from
so they get a court order and they go to the Kansas State University they find these items they get a court order to
test them for DNA and what they discover is that it tested positive that the DNA
that they tested was the daughter of the killer that they knew to be BTK I'm good
because I just hate this guy you know yeah you would I mean you and the rest of the world right he's just I
hate them so the the task force that we have they were worried that somehow the media might learn of Dennis Raider
before they could arrest him this was a concern because this had actually happened before this was when they had
they they had a guy that they liked as BTK his name was Roger Valdez and they wanted to get DNA swab from him
he was one of the few people that didn't really want to comply and give them the
DNA swab and it was because through the media he had heard that he was considered a prime suspect at the time
so they had a leak somewhere amongst this task force they were worried would Dennis Rader would this be leaked to the
media in Dennis Rader catch wind of this so they're going to have to move a little faster than they wanted to
however for Raider what the police wanted to do was map out precisely and coordinate a plan to
simultaneously arrest him search his home other key places and contact and interview his relatives all at the same
time so what they did was they organized 215 officers and agents were assembled to take to take this on well that's a
lot of money a lot of this was mostly for the searches that were going to be done right so now they were going to use
Dennis Raiders schedule against him Raider was predictable and the detectives knew this from
following him over the course of that surveillance they knew what time he went to work they knew what time he came home
for lunch every day and so on and so forth now the police knew that Raider always left his office at 12 15 pm and
arrived home for lunch to have lunch with his wife at 12 18 PM each day three minutes
as Raider drove onto Frontage Road this is off of 61st Street in Park City an unmarked police car stopped him there
were plenty of guns drawn on him an officer dragged him out of his truck now at that point
we the the officers would later say at that point we're dealing with an individual We Believe committed eight
homicides so we were taking no risk we we knew that he had used guns before and in previous crimes
so they drew guns on this guy they took no risk now Raider was handcuffed and he
was searched moments later Raider and landwear the guy who had been hunting him for 20 years wait did he have one of
those little creepy cards his little flash cards he made I wonder if he had one of those on his
person at that time I I don't know he's driving around with a redhead that's interesting if he still had that hobby
at the time um weirdo but now we have these two individuals we have the the monster and
the guy that's been hunting the monster for 20 years they're finally face to face with each other and they're they're
saying hello to one another they're calling each other Mister at this point in the back of the police car I'm not
calling nobody Mister police audio taped the arrest from the car um and you and used in the transport of
raider and took aerial photographs from a helicopter as well right they stated that he was Dennis Raider was breathing
hard during this time uh as were the officers and later landwair would go on record saying I cannot tell you how much
fun it was to finally take this guy down it was a great day for everyone in law enforcement now Bob Morton who was a FBI
Behavioral Analyst and detective landware they were the ones that would conduct the initial interview with
Dennis Rader the idea here captain was that Raider would respond to land where because he knew who he was he knew him
by name he knew he was active on the BTK case for so long right and Bob Morton being from the FBI while this would
boost Dennis Raider's ego during the course of the interview then the teams of detectives interviewed Raider about
the cases that they had been assigned to so we have all these murders all these homicides we have other detectives
working some of these now that we had some detectives during the interviews the only thing they spoke to Raider
about was his Communications with k-a-k-e-tv with law enforcement and so on and the sheriff's Personnel they
approached him about the Marine hedge and Dolores Davis homicides now you you have to keep in mind the sheriff's
department had to work these two homicides because they took place outside of Wichita City and not only
that they were abducted from from another location and then dumped elsewhere so how long did they interview
this creepo uh for 32 hours they interviewed Dennis Raider and they during that time they actually
encouraged him to sleep but he wouldn't he did nap a couple of times you know very briefly but they wanted him to get
a a good night's sleep and he did not want to he wanted to talk it was about three hours and 15 minutes into the
initial interview when Raider looked at Bob Morton the FBI agent and Morton said
to him say who you are and Dennis Rader answered I'm BTK now Raider's own DNA came back as a
match about 12 hours after the start of the interviews right right he had learned that investigators by this time
had already had his daughter's DNA and had linked that to him into BTK and so according to detective land where
at this point Raider has figured out that he has been put in a corner and he kind of
once that comes out with the DNA and once he realizes this is what's going on after about 12 or 13 hours into the
interview he's going to start telling them everything I mean everything right and to the point that he was even trying
to describe to them the that code remember that code that they couldn't figure out yeah the shitty code yeah he
was trying to tell them that the letter that he mailed to the eagle in 2004 what
he had used was German fractional code that he claimed that he knew from his military background and remember they
sent it and nobody could crack it because the code actually made no sense he he got it wrong when he tried to
remember it uh and he's damn dyslexia getting in the way again well in the interview process he tried to prove them
wrong trying to recall the code himself which he he couldn't dimwit another interesting thing though here Captain
was that during the course of the interview Raider repeatedly tapped on the disc on the computer disk they put
it on the interview table and they just kind of sat it there right in front of him okay and he tapped on it well he
would tap on it and if throughout the course of the interview and at some point he looked at the officer's land
where in particular and he asked him why did you lie to me and land Ware said because I'm trying to
catch you yeah why wouldn't I lie to you I'm trying to catch you yeah you killed
people you son of a [ __ ] yeah we're gonna lie to you well I think see that's what what's weird though is that okay so
something psychological had taken over with Dennis Rader and this was actually something that the FBI had recommended
that the police do a long time ago in their investigation what they had recommended is that they create the
Persona of some kind of super cop all right so that Dennis Raider would identify the the investigation into him
into his killings through one person and one person only that he could he could take this this detective and he could
put him on a pedestal in his mind he's now this super cop that is a worthy adversary of his hunting him somebody
that is his equal and through over the throughout the course of many years of looking at that
one person and having this person that he considered to be an equal he led his guard down to the point where
he then believed that he could trust him that his equal would be honest with him
and that the game of cat and mouse would continue forever well that wasn't going to be the case
obviously right and the FBI did say that they believed with somebody and they always believed this usually when a
killer is willing to communicate multiple times with the media or law enforcement is that usually they will
lead them to they will lead law enforcement to themselves they will get themselves caught because their ego and
because of their need to make these communications now Raider did voice concern about how
his arrest would affect his family his church and the City of Park City when teams of investigators told
Raider's wife and his grown son and daughter about his arrest they were in disbelief they had no idea that their
husband or father was this monster [Music] um they did they did exactly like they said they
were planning to do remember we said that they brought in 215 officers because they wanted to search his all at
the same time they wanted to arrest him search his home interview his relatives and they did that and some of them
didn't even live in Wichita Kansas so what they did was they distributed officers out to those locations they sat
there and waited and at at that specific time between 12 15 and 12 18 on that day
those officers were to go and bust into the home knock on the door do what you got to do you need to be in these
locations all at this same time on March 1st 2005 Raiders bail was set at 10 million dollars and a public
defender was appointed to represent him on May 3rd the judge entered a not guilty plea on Raiders
behalf as Raider did not speak at his arraignment however on June 27th the which was the scheduled trial date yeah
Dennis Raider changed his plea to guilty the thought here was that he would save
his family some anguish and shame of of going through the details of the crime that was not to be because he was forced
to describe the murders in detail during uh he was he was ordered to give a full
confession basically right now could there be some murders out there that he didn't confess to for some reason
possible it's possible I doubt it like you said earlier it seems to be that he wants the credit let's say that's a
terrible word but that's what he wants he wants the credit for his actions and for what he thinks to be some kind of
career or some kind of great work that he believes that he did now during the and I'm sure some people have seen this
by now you can actually find the full confession online I believe it's like 48 minutes long that's awful it's very
tough to listen to because he doesn't seem like he gives a [ __ ] he seems like he's kind of giving the weather report
to somebody when he talks about these crimes one thing that I know that really sickened the family his his direct
family especially his daughter was that one they they didn't believe he was guilty until they you know the next
day when they found out well he confessed to police right they're like in the DNA matches right well they're
like crap you know he did really do this and then once he's in court when he's going over the description of these
murders a lot of people thought that he may have purposely droned on about the murders of the two
children you know most of his victims were adults and a lot of people seem to think that he hovered around that a
little longer than necessary maybe he took some kind of pleasure in talking about those specific murders yeah
so he offered no apologies during the course of this confession and at Dennis Raiders August 18th sentencing victims
families made their statements after which Raider did Apologize in a rambling 30-minute monologue Dennis Raider was
sentenced to 10 consecutive life sentences with a minimum of 175 years to be served Kansas had no death penalty at
the time of the murders that he committed so he is in solitary confinement with one hour of exercise
per day and gets to shower three times per week and guess what that makes him what one stinky piece of [ __ ]
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January 1974 - Wichita, Kansas - After years of fantasizing a killer emerges from the shadows and announces himself to the world. A dark haired man slipped into the home of the Otero's one morning as the children prepared for school. He murdered all four people inside the home. Later that same year he would attack and kill again before vanishing into hibernation. After many requests we have decided to take an in depth look into the dark, disturbing life and mind of Dennis Rader. Driven by what he called Factor X, Dennis was better known as the BTK. Beer of the Week - Dim Wit by River City Garage Grade - 3 and a half bottle caps out of 5

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Brief Summary

Dennis Rader, the BTK killer, is discussed, detailing his crimes, capture, and disturbing behaviors.

Key points

The BTK Story. The chilling autobiography of the BTK killer reveals his twisted psyche.
Dennis Rader's New Job. In 1989, Dennis Rader took a job that allowed him to scout for victims.
The Murder of Dolores Davis. Dennis Rader's brutal attack on Dolores Davis showcases his chilling methods.
BTK's Communication Resumes. In 2004, BTK re-emerges with a letter that reignites the investigation.
The Seventh Communication. BTK sends a strange communication numbered seven, asking if police received it.
A Shocking Discovery. Police discover a cereal box containing a two-page document from BTK.

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